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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 28, 1940.

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CHURCHILL ESCAPED FROM GAOL

Goebbels Misses A Chance For. A Gibe

in all the vitriolic outbursts that Dr. Goebbels, chief Nazi propagandist, has directed at Winston Churchill, ono bitter blast that bo could have used with some claim to truth hai been missing.

Goebbels has never called Churchill a gaol-bird; yet tho First Lord of the Admiralty spent his 25th birthday in a Boor prison.

W

X7INSTON CHURCHILL'S escape from captivity with a handsome price on his head is perhaps the most colourful episode in his amaz- ing career.

At a salary of £250 a month, Churchill was on his way to the South African war as correspon- dent for the Morning Post, when a British armoured reconnaissance train was derailed near Chieveley un November 15, 1890, and he was taken prisoner by the Boers, nud interned in Pretoria's Steals Model School.

The school was in the heart of the Boer territory, heavily guarded, and surrounded by a high tron fence. After Churchill had been in custody for a month, he decided

escapo.

With heavy odds against getting away, audacity was the one card he had to play. About 7 pun. on December 12, 1000, whilst the other internees

ivere at dinner, Churchill chose a moment when the sentries backs were turned, and sealed the wall, to drop into hiding among shrubbery. He had some chocolate, and £75 in bl pockets.

After an hour's hiding, he slcirted the house in the school grounds, and strolled carelessly, but with n bumping heart, into the streets of

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Leaving Pretoria without being challenged, he found the Delagoa Day railway, and boarded a may- ing goods train moving eastward.

Until dawn, Churchill journeyed towards the coast among bags of caal dust, and then jumped out as the train slowed on an incline.

HE hid all day in a thicket on the side of a ravine with a culture for company.

-Ho-ate-the-chocolate-and-na-the-- day got hotter and wondering patrols made it too risky to go down to a nearby stream, he suf fered severely from thirst.

That night he tiled but failed to pick up another east-bound train. He was becoming too weak to walk after his month's internment, followed by inck of food.

He knew that in the district some long-resident Englishmen had been permitted io retain a neutral freedom to keep the coal mines working, and, seeing a house some little way from the railway line. he made towards it, gambling on it. being the resklence of a fellow countryman.

"Churchill's mid knock en the door was answered by Mr. John

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Howard, manager of the Transvaal Colllerics the only non-Boer for 20 miles.

Howard and his British com- panions concealed Churchill in the inlne workings until December 10, when they hid him among some bales of wool being trucked to Delagon Bay. He had food and water With him, and remained in the truck for three days while the frain rumbled towards the coust.

When it arrived at Lourenco Marques, Churchili slipped out of the truck, went to the British con- pulate, and caught a boat to Dur- ban the une evening.

He served as an vilicer of the South African Light Horse for the remainder of the war,

Three years passed before Chur- chill discovered the identity of the Boer burgher who had taken him prisoner. It was Louis Botha, by ila time a General.

Later, when Churchill was Un- der-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Bota became Prime Minister of the Transvaal.

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SWITZER

THE arrows in the 1914 map show how far the Germans advanced in the first month of the 1914-18 war. The arrows in the 1940 map show the direction taken by the Nazi armoured divisions which, employing the Banse modification of the Schlieffen plan, were able to crush France.

In the two maps you see how the Schlieffen Plan, which was the basis of the German in- vasion of Belgium and France in 1914, has been adapted for the Nazi invasion of the Nether- lands, Belgium and France in 1940.

The German 1940 plan was a repetition of 1914 but on the opposite flank aimed at draw- ing Allied forces inta Belgium, weakening the

By Abnor Dean

"Now repost after me, 'So ya won't talk, eh?”

right, break it up!'... ånd, 'Where's the fire?'

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Air Raid Can

Be So

Impersonal

TAR is a strange_adven-

ture more terrifying to read about than to experi- ence. You read of bombing raids, of roads being sprayed with machine-gun bullets, and you form, maybe, a nightmare picture of death striking 'from the skies, of wholesale devas- tation from which there is no escapé...

But just as the nightmare onds with awakening, so can you pass through the blizzard of a barrage, a hail-storm of machine-gun and rifle fire, un- scathed, and-strangely-un- shaken.

Not every bomb or shell has your "number" on it, as the soldiers say not every bullet finds à billet,

shrieking out of nowhere, the burst and the splatter of debris. The first bomb, with its terrifying whistle through the air, the first time under machine-gun fire when the bullets drone past like invisible bees and you see little spurts of carth spring up at your feet.

You are alive unhurt, you were lightly alck, but you did not panic.

1, like many another, have been bombed, shelled, machine-gunned, gassed; have gone over the lop and walked through an enemy Larrage: have crouched against the parapet while the area was "plastered," or when "whizz-bangs," egg-bombs or "con-boxes" whistled and shrieked through the night, and I have sur- vived.

The soldier learns to recognise by Its note where a shell will fall, where a bomb will burst. If he is not there, well and good: He adopts a philosophy of "Don't care," and translates it into char acteristic British humour, "Where did that one go to?"--

One need not minimise the -horror of modern war, but it may be some consolation to relatives of soldiers now in the firing line to realise that in-He invents familiar names for jury or death is not an hourly

menace.

Those photographs you see of smiling, singing soldiers on theft way to the front line are not posed. The soldier smiles and sings on his. way to what may come, because it is his nature to do so; because dia- *cipline and comradeship produco n The fear of courage, showing cowardice is greater than the fear of the unknown.

common

COUNT THE GA TELEGRAPHS EVERYWHERE

The bapilom; of fire is a nasty thing: the ant shell that comes

the worst of the enemy's artillery. In the last war he amused himself. in the stillness of the night, when there was "nothing doing," by playing "om-tiddely-om-pom" with the enemy machine gunners.

"Om-tiddely-om-pom," a German machine-gun would stutter, "A moment's silence, then a Dritish gun would reply "pom-pom."

So, when you read of “violent" or "Intense Aghting in this war, think of the initions of combatants In the last war, the millions who survived.

NA NEIL MACINTYREMA

PARIS

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French centre and then cutting through and sweeping in behind the Allies. And once again the centre thrust developed and reached a major crisis round Le Cateau, in 1914 Von Kluck, the German general commanding the right-wing army, wheeled inwards at this point, thinking that the French and British were al- ready defeated. In this abandonment of the Schlieffen Plan the Germans lost their main chance of a quick victory.

It is worth remembering, too, that in 1914 the Germans advanced so rapidly that they out- rah their timetable and supplics were unable to keep pace with the advance. Mechanisation alded them in 1940.

SPAIN KEEP

WILL OUT

LISBON.

ON the winding banks of the lovely River Tagus

at Lisbon thousands of workmen toiled fever- ishly day and night. They are not building fort- resses, nor even air raid shelters, despite the Mediterranean tension in these days,

They were completing, in time for the official opening. the Imperial Exhibition to celebrate the fact that this year it is exactly eight centuries since King Alfonso Henriques eut adrift from Spain and made Portugal a free and indepen- dent nation.

It is not bravado or blindness to for Suner was originally a Chris danger which causes neutral Por- tian Social tender, under GIF tugal publicly and elaboratel, to Robles. celebrate eight hundred years-

Laft Wing Now except for a few decades when she was temporarily under Spain again

High-pressure Nazi and Italian ----of-complete-liberty-and-indepen--propaganda tells tho-Falango st--

dance at a time when all

must be radical. It must appeal Europe mull neutrals are being ell-

for popular support. minated.

over

It is just that Portugal firmly believes that Spain will not invade Portugal, even I she joins in the war, an eventuality regarded here

ta extremely improbable.

Austere Oliveira Salazar, who is his own Foreign Minister, is the least spectacular and the most ef- ficient dictator in Europe. Nothing going on in Portugal escapes him, and very little of what goes on outside misses his notice.

Mobilo Unity

It is true that General France has a well-trained, experienced army. When the civil war ended. he had probably in the neighbour, hood of 800 bombers and chansers In good condition. We do not know what happened to the German and Italian, mainly Italian, crews and ground staffs who helped to fly these planes.

Some may still be there. Then there were at least 500 motor- huuled light and heavy modern German and Italian guns and many hundreds of armoured cars and light Fiat and heavy Mercedes tanks.

And the tough Foreign Legion la still there, as a spearhead agains any blitz-coup, with at least half a million soldiers to back it up. From the point of view of men and inf- flal army materials, Franco could. certainly strike in any direc tion.

The navy is small but useful and has been overhauled under German guidance after being returned by the French after the Republicans hud surrendered.

But Franco would be immedi- utely blockaded by England.

Wheat Scarce

Or

He would have no possible means "of geljing further munitions

petrol. Franco's brother-in-law, Romon Serrano Suner, Home Min- ister and political lender, told a Valencin audience frankly that Spain was having to face, and remedy, a dasleit of no less than one million tons of wheat in order to, bridge the period from the last harvest to the next,

Then thero, to the Internal:

situn tlon in Spain. Suner spoke freely about this too. Very briefly, what is happening la a blg: tug-of-war within” the Folange.. Suner......and^ his followers are probably, latening closely to the advice of Germany's Madrid Anibassador,von Stohrer, which probably coincides closely. enough" with their own opiniona.

That, in Spain, means inevitably going a long way Lett. But the Carlists, Catholics and Monarch- ists hold up their hands in horror. "We swerfleed every- They say, thing to save Spain from Com- munism, and now we are asked lo install almost the same thing under another label."

General Francisco Franco, In the seclusion of his new home in El Pardo Paluce, eight miles from Madrid, soys nothing. It is not clear how he will bridge the gulf, for both sides think it is n fe or depth issue.

There are other things he must take into account. A quarter of a million people are estimated to be in prisons and labour camps-not a very happy aspect, of nation.

united might

Public opinion in Spain not welcome

a war against the Allies despite all the efforts of the 200 propagandists reputedly employed by the German Embassy In Madrid and the nation-wide activities of Thomson, Nazi chief for Spain.

It seems, in fact, very unlikely altogether that Spain will stick out her neck in order to receive swift blows.

Italy's Bargain

Portugal sees as a tranquillising factor in the general situation the visit of the Duce's son, Bruno Mussolini, who is paying a three- day

visit to negotiate final permis- sion for Italy to use the Sal Island of the Cape Verde Islands the

for Italy-Brazil flying services, which B. Is hoped will function roon. Bruno is discussing the matter with the Colonial Minister, Machado..

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